Rotational flux through an ellipsoidal graph patch
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Take the upward-oriented graph over , , where , , and . The surface flux of the vector field is the displayed formula. Indeed the vector surface element is , soThe change of variables , changes to . Integrating over gives , proving the result. When , the value of the vector field is a tangent vector to the ellipsoid at every point, and the surface flux vanishes pointwise.
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